Climate

From 23 to 26 October the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) conducted the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) of the CDP Subgroup on least developed countries (LDCs) in Geneva, Switzerland to (i) discuss issues related to the review of t ...

Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee’s Report on it’s 20th Session to the ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meeting (CMM) held on 12 June 2018. The CDP’s deliberations on LDC- ...

This paper attempts to identify different LDC clusters in which underdevelopment is caused by specific economic and social conditions.

This paper reviews the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying least developed countries (LDCs).

On 4 April 2012 the Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Francis Stewart and CDP member Sakiko Fukuda-Parr participated as panelists at a briefing on the “Post 2015 UN Development Framework” convened by the Economic and Social Council (E ...

The paper discusses the conceptual, methodological and empirical issues related to the CDP's economic vulnerability index (EVI) used to identify LDCs.

22 - 26 March 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York, USA

9 - 13 March 2009 at UN Headquarters in New York, USA

The policy note examines the key channels through which climate change could undermine development and identifies potential strategies aimed at ameliorating any negative impact, with particular attention given to adaptation and mitigation policies, enhanced international cooperation, and improved policy coherence.